Ogletree Deakins Compliance Solutions

This team works with human resources and management to deliver customized training options to align with your strategic goals. No matter the obstacles, Ogletree Deakins Learning Solutions is the “one-stop source” for all of your training needs.

Ogletree Deakins is committed to providing educational programs specifically designed for in-house counsel, human resources professionals, and business leaders. The firm offers webinars, multi-day national seminars, and half-day and full-day local programs to keep clients abreast of key developments and issues affecting employers.

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Traditional Labor Relations

Over the past several years, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has aggressively redefined the landscape for employer rules contained in employee handbooks, employee policies, and/or employment agreements. Even though these decisions purportedly follow the standards established in the Board’s 2004 decision in Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia, 343 NLRB 646 (2004), the application of those standards, first by former General Counsel Lafe Solomon and now under General Counsel Richard Griffin, have led to long-established, commonplace employer rules being found unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

On March 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States settled a controversy surrounding an employer’s policy that provided light-duty work for certain employees (including some disabled employees) but not for pregnant workers. The case was brought by a worker who tried to show—through indirect evidence—that the policy resulted in the disparate treatment of pregnant workers.